The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.